Tom and Raks are at the bottom of the pecking order - and it just shouldn’t be that way - but then they befriend ‘ASBO boy’
at the heart of each of Saphra’s poems is a delicate filament kicking out a heavy-duty wattage
translated by Thomas Aplin
the dashing of their family’s hopes when the Peronist party fell from power
The second feature continues the New Writing in Egypt
Let Out the Djinn Maram al-Masri Tom and Raks are atThere is a double meaning in the title to this debut collection from Jane Aldous ? Jinn was her family nickname, and writing poetry feels like letting out her wild, mischievous spirit. For Jane, poetry is all about listening, and she invites us to listen to the imagined worlds of hunter gatherers, star gazers, mythical beings, wild creatures, the living and the dead, and the real world of a gay woman growing up in the 70s.